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Koussevitzky 150

Prokofiev Symphony No. 4

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Symphony Hall, Boston, MA

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Thomas Rolfs, trumpet

Sofia GUBAIDULINA The Wrath of God
Detlev GLANERT Trumpet Concerto
Intermission
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 4, Op. 47 (original version)

Thursday evening’s performance is supported by Hemenway & Barnes LLP.
Thursday evening's performance by Thomas Rolfs is supported by Dr. Kenan E. Sahin and Andrea TN Sahin.
Friday afternoon's concert is supported by the Gilbert Family

The program begins with the American premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina’s musically and spiritually forceful Wrath of God, a 2019 work dedicated to Beethoven that Andris Nelsons recorded with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. BSO principal trumpet Thomas Rolfs is the soloist in Detlev Glanert’s Trumpet Concerto, an eclectic, dramatic work commissioned for and premiered by Rolfs in 2019. The program concludes with Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 4, commissioned by longtime BSO music director Serge Koussevitzky for the orchestra’s 50th anniversary in 1931.

The Friday Preview talk on April 26 will begin at 12:15pm. Admission included with ticket.

Thursday's concert will end around 9:15pm, Friday's concert will end around 3:15pm, and Saturday's concert will end around 9:45pm.

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Thomas Rolfs headshot with trumpet

Performance Details

Apr 26, 2024, 1:30pm EDT

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Program Notes & Works

The Wrath of God

Sofia Gubaidulina

Sofia Gubaidulina's powerful Wrath of God was premiered by the Vienna Radio Symphony in June 2020 and is dedicated “to the great Beethoven,” whose 250th birth anniversary was celebrated that year.

Trumpet Concerto

Detlev Glanert

German composer Detlev Glanert wrote his 2019 Trumpet Concerto for BSO Principal Trumpet Thomas Rolfs.

Symphony No. 4, Opus 47 (original version)

Sergei Prokofiev

Legendary BSO Music Director Serge Koussevitzky led the premiere of Prokofiev’s Fourth at Symphony Hall in November 1930. More than a decade later, Prokofiev returned to the symphony, creating virtually a new piece (designated Opus 112).

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